About the Artwork
Italian Peasant Head
1913
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (Artist) American, 1877-1942 C. Valsuani (Foundry) Paris
Bronze
Overall: 14 1/8 × 7 1/2 × 7 1/4 inches (35.9 × 19.1 × 18.4 cm)
Sculpture
American Art before 1950
Gift of George G. Booth
19.60
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Markings
Signed and dated, on back upper right: Gertrude V. Whitney, 1913
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Provenance
George G. Booth
1919-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA (1919): p. 40.
DIA Catalogue 1920. Detroit, no. 315.
Gardner, A. T. American Sculpture: A Catalogue. New York, 1965, p. 130.
Arts and Crafts in Detroit. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1976, p. 105, no. 97 (ill.).
Tolles, Thayer. American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vol. 2: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1865 and 1885. New York, 1999, pp. 593-594, no. 271 (ill. of example at MMA titled, Head of a Spanish Peasant).
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Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney; C. Valsuani, Italian Peasant Head, 1913, bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of George G. Booth, 19.60.
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